奧修演講文章

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My respects to you.
Moving around for the whole of May affected my
health so all programmes for June: Bombay, Calcutta,
Jaipur, were cancelled.

I am glad to hear you are experimenting with
SAMADHI YOGA.
Don't worry about results, just be with the
experimenting.
The return is bound to come one day -- not
gradually but all of a sudden, effortlessly, without
one's knowing, it happens. Within a moment life becomes
wonderfully different!

I am not writing anything on Bhagwan Mahavir at the
moment. There is no urge whatsoever in me to write. But
if you persuade me it is a different thing! Everything
else is fine.

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Love
I read your letter on the way here.
It has touched my heart.
If your desire to know life's truth becomes strong
then what is longing today
becomes one day the attainment.
Burning desire is all that is needed
and nothing else.
As rivers seek out the ocean
so man if he wants to can find the truth.
No peak, no mountain can stop him,
in fact their challenge awakens his sense of
adventure.
Truth is within everyone.
Rivers have to find the ocean
but our ocean is inside us --
it is a wonder that so many remain thirsty yet
without it.
Actually they cannot really want it.
There is a saying of Christ's: Ask and ye shall be
given.
But if you don't ask, whose fault is it?
There is no better bargain than the attainment of
God.
We have only to ask, nothing more.
As the asking grows stronger and stronger
so he who asks starts vanishing.
A limit is reached,
a point of evaporation is reached,
where the seeker utterly disappears
and only the asking remains.
This is the very moment of attainment.

Truth is where the I is not --
this experience alone is the divine experience.
Absence of ego is presence of God.

My regards to all there.

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My respects to you.
I was waiting for your letter when it came.
I really want your life to be filled with light,
for you to surrender yourself to God.
God and light are always close by.
it is only a matter of opening one's eyes
and then what is ours becomes ours.
The distance is just that between the eyelash and
the eye --
and perhaps not even that much;
the eyes are always open only we don't know it.

There is an old story:
A fish had long heard stories about the ocean.
She began to fret about it
so one day she asked the Queen of Fishes:
What is this ocean and where is it?
The Queen was surprised. She said:
The ocean? Why, you are in the very ocean itself!
Your very existence, your very life, is in the
ocean.
It is within you
The ocean is your everything,
but for the ocean, you are nothing.

For this very reason
the fish couldn't see the ocean!
And for this very reason
we are unable to find God.

But He can be found --
by being empty.
In the state of emptiness we meet Him
for God is emptiness.

I am in bliss,
or shall I say --
Bliss alone is and I am not!

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My respects to you.
I received your letter, I was waiting for it.
The trip to Rajnagar was blissful.

Religion robbed of the spirit of yoga has become a
matter of morality only, thereby losing its soul.
Morality is negative.
Life cannot be based on negation, negation cannot
nourish life.

The emphasis has to be on attainment not on
renunciation.
It is not a question of renouncing ignorance
but of attaining understanding,
it is this that has to be central.
Practise has to be positive
and this sadhana can happen through yoga.

In my talks with Acharya Tulsi, Muni Shri
Nathamaljee and others
I have stressed this point.
Many letters have come from Rajnagar and Rajasthan
in this connection; as you have said
it seems some fruitful work has been accomplished
by going there.
One thing is very clear:
people are eager for a spiritual life and current
forms of religion do not satisfy them.
If however the right religion is given to them
it can revolutionize human consciousness.

I think of you.
May God grant you peace.
My love and regards to all.

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My respects to you.
All your letters arrived in good time
but as I have been busy I could not reply sooner.
I have been out most of the time
and I have just returned after speaking in Jaipur,
Burhanpur, Hoshangabad, Chanda
and other places.

How thirsty people are for spiritual life!
Seeing this
I am surprised that some people say man has lost
all interest in religion.
This can never be.
No interest in religion means no interest in life,
bliss, the ultimate.
Consciousness is by nature God-oriented
and it can only be satisfied by attaining God
the state of satchitananda, the
truth-awareness-bliss state of being.

Hidden within one in the form of a seed is the very
source of religious birth, therefore whilst religions
may come ant go religion can never die.

I am glad to know that you feel patient about your
progress towards the light.
Patience is the most important thing of all in
spiritual life.
How long one must wait after sowing the seed!
At first all the effort seems wasted, nothing seems
to happen, and then one day the waiting ends and there
is actuality -- the seed breaks, pushes through the
earth -- into a plant!
But remember that even when nothing seemed to be
happening the seed was working away under the soil.

It is the same with the seeker for truth -- when
nothing appears to be happening much is happening.
The fact is that all growth of life-energy is
unseen and unknown.
Only the results can be observed not the progress.

I am in bliss.
I want you to come closer to God.
Forget about results, just keep going on your path;
let the fruits come by themselves.
One day one wonders: What has happened!
What was I!
What have I become!
Compared to the results all the effort seems
negligible.

My love to all.

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My respects to you.
I have just returned from Rajnagar in Rajasthan.
I was invited to a religious function there
organized by Acharya Shree Tulsi.
I put four hundred monks and nuns
through an experiment in meditation.
The results were extraordinary.

In my view
meditation is the essence of all religious
practice.
All the rest --
such as non-violence, renunciation of wealth,
celibacy etc. -- are just its consequences.
With the attainment of samadhi,
the culmination of meditation,
all these things come by themselves,
they just happen naturally.
Since we forgot this central sadhana
all our efforts have been external and superficial.

True sadhana IS not just ethical,
it is basically yoga practice.
Ethics ALONE are negative
and nothing enduring can be constructed on
negation.
Yoga is positive and can therefore form a base.
I want to convey this positive basis to all.

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Love.
I have received your very affectionate letter.
You write that my words ring in your ears;
what I want is for their echo to carry you
into that space where everything is silent, empty.
This is the way from words to emptiness.
There one meets oneself.

I am in bliss.
Take my love
I have nothing else to offer, it is my only wealth.
The marvel of it is that the more of it you give the
more it becomes.
Real wealth is like that --
it grows as you give it away; and if it
diminishes -- it is not wealth at all.

Write again,
for not only do you wait for my letters,
I too wait for yours.